* 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

The city of Vienna decorates all trams with the rainbow flag for one month before the pride parade.

It was the first city in the UK to install street signs bearing the rainbow coloured Pride flag to identify its gay quarter on Stanley Street, Cumberland Street, Temple Lane, Eberle Street and Temple Street, and was also the scene of many significant moments in the history of the gay rights movement ( see LGBT culture in Liverpool ).

* Figures and identities that are present in the LGBT community and LGBT culture, this could include the gay village, drag kings and queens, Pride, and the rainbow flag.

A rainbow flag is a multi-colored flag consisting the colors of the rainbow.

This choice of the rainbow, in the form of a flag for convenience, harkens back to the rainbow as a symbol of biblical promise.

He is often portrayed with a rainbow flag in his hand.

The Thomas Müntzer statue in the German town of Stolberg also shows him holding a rainbow flag in his hand.

In the German Peasants ' War of the 16th century, the rainbow flag together with the peasants ' boot (" Bundschuh ") was used as the sign of a new era, of hope and of social change.

A flag with a seven-striped rainbow design is used in Peru and Ecuador to represent Tawantin Suyu, or Inca territory.

In 1534 during the invasion and occupation of the city of Qusqu today Cusco, the Spaniards found the first resistance of qhishwa-ayrnaras and saw between the multitude, objects similar to the flag of strips and pictures of seven colors of the rainbow.

Until 2001, the International Co-operative Alliance used a rainbow flag

A seven-colour rainbow flag is a common symbol of the international cooperative movement.

The rainbow flag has been the cooperative emblem since 1921 when the International Co-operative Congress of World Co-op Leaders met in Basel, Switzerland to identify and define the growing cooperative movement ’ s common values and ideals to help unite co-ops around the world.

After some experiments with different designs, a famous French cooperator, Professor Charles Gide, suggested using the seven colours of the rainbow for the flag.

The first co-op rainbow flag was completed in 1924 and was adopted as an official symbol of the international cooperative movement in 1925.

In 2001, the ICA's official flag was changed from a rainbow flag to a rainbow logo flag on a white field, to clearly promote and strengthen the cooperative image, but still use the rainbow image.

The international peace flag in the colours of the rainbow was first used in Italy on a 1961 peace march from Perugia to Assisi organised by the pacifist and social philosopher Aldo Capitini ( 1899 – 1968 ).

Inland production of rainbow trout to supply domestic markets has increased in countries such as Italy, France, Germany, Denmark and Spain.

It was also possible to control screen and " rainbow " effects using AMAL scripts.

Philostorgius and the Alexandrian chronicle affirm, that this cross of light was encircled with a large rainbow.

A rainbow coalition of opposition parties routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president Mwai Kibaki, was elected President by a large majority.

Lugh ’ s sling rod was the rainbow and the Milky Way which was called " Lugh's Chain ".

The presence of these species so far inland established that Oncorhynchus was not only present in the Pacific drainages before the beginning of the Pliocene (~ 5 – 6 mya ), but also that rainbow and cutthroat trout, and Pacific salmon lineages had diverged before the beginning of the Pliocene.

Some existing examples show that a popular choice of interior decor was to paint panels in alternating red and rainbow.

A rainbow parade was held at Chennai the next day.

In terms of classification of the individual examples, these fall into a number of distinct groups including: truisms such as " Stronsay is an island surrounded by sea " and Coleman's own " He's 31 this year-last year he was 30 "; unintentional juxtapositions where the viewer / listener knows what is meant such as " Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20, 000 people ", or " I am not a man of faith, but my wife is "; and complete nonsense such as " Here they come, every colour of the rainbow: black, white, brown ".

The world's best-known version of the rainbow flag, sometimes called ' the freedom flag ', was popularized as a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) pride and diversity by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978.

For the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots, held in 1994 in New York city, a mile-long rainbow flag was created and post-parade cut up in sections that have since been used around the world.

It was described by General Mills as " a sprinkling of multicolored sugar on a white rainbow marbit.

Irus ( also Iros ; Ἶρος ) was a nickname given to Arnaeus ( Ἀρναῖος ) the beggar, due to his willingness to run messages for the suitors ( see also Iris, the divine rainbow messenger ).

* The iris of the eye is named after her as she was the goddess of the rainbow, to reflect the many colours of the eye.

The creature had a twin personality as the red part of the rainbow was male, while the blue part was female.

" He notes that the first element of Bilröst — bil ( meaning " a moment ")—" suggests the fleeting nature of the rainbow ," which he connects to the first element of Bifröst — the Old Norse verb bifa ( meaning " to shimmer " or " to shake ")— noting that the element provokes notions of the " lustrous sheen " of the bridge.

The first covenant is between God and all living creatures, and is marked by the sign of the rainbow ; the second is with the descendants of Abraham ( Ishmaelites and others as well as Israelites ), and its sign is circumcision ; and the last, which doesn't appear until the book of Exodus, is with Israel alone, and its sign is Sabbath.

The word saw its first scientific use within the field of optics to describe the rainbow of colors in visible light when separated using a prism ; it has since been applied by analogy to many fields other than optics.

According to the Christian Bible, God first created the rainbow as a sign to Noah that there would never again be a world-wide flood.

The rainbow arch type, as it was described, was claimed to be the first of its type in Australia.

Of the four only the Magic continue to use a parquet floor ( which was transferred to the Amway Center from the Amway Arena ); the Nets were the first of those teams to switch to a regular hardwood court ( although their old parquet floor continued to be used by the Seton Hall basketball team until 2007 ), with the Nuggets using their parquet in the latter years of the iconic ' rainbow ' era ( 1990-93 ) and the Timberwolves installing a new floor at the Target Center for the 2008-09 season.

The first and third parts ( very short ) evoke the power of this mighty angel, a rainbow upon his head and clothed with a cloud, who sets one foot on the sea and one foot on the earth.

* 13th century-St. Albert the Great is the first to propose that each drop of falling rain had the form of a small sphere, and that this form meant that the rainbow was produced by light interacting with each raindrop.

* Roger Bacon was the first to calculate the angular size of the rainbow.

* Late 13th century-Theoderic of Freiburg and Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī give the first accurate explanations of the primary rainbow, simultaneously but independently. Theoderic also gives the explanation for the secondary rainbow.

For the 1980 launch of the first Universal-Pioneer player, the VP-1000, the name became Laser Disc ( with a ' rainbow ' type logo joining the two words ); in 1981, the space was eliminated and the intercap " LaserDisc " became the final and common brand name for the format, although the official name was LaserVision ( as seen at the beginning of many LaserDisc releases just before the start of the film ).

Original version of the rainbow flag ( LGBT movement ) | gay pride flag, first flown in the 1978 San Francisco Pride | Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco

* 25 — The rainbow flag is first used as a symbol of gay pride.

In the summer of 2007 an angler reported the first rainbow trout to be caught upstream of the Slough Creek falls.

* Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī provides the first correct explanation of the rainbow phenomenon and uses the experimental method to prove his theory

Both the South Fork in Virginia and the first of the Holston in Tennessee below South Holston Dam are quality brown trout and rainbow trout fisheries.

Later picture discs included liquid light show style fluids between the vinyl, Rowlux 3D effect film, diffraction rainbow film, metal flake ( vide examples here ), pressure-sensitive liquid crystals that changed color when the record was picked up, a real holographic record ( the first ever ).